Senior Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI, Search Intelligence

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Generative AI in the Search Intelligence group. You will lead architecture and implementation of AI-enabled features touching billions of users, and collaborate across teams to drive end-to-end delivery.

Role emphasizes leadership, ML design, model deployment, data processing, and rigorous testing. In-person interviews are common; strong technical breadth and collaboration are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure.
• 5 years with design/architecture and testing/launching software products.
• 2 years experience with GenAI techniques or related concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and implementation of AI-enabled features at scale.
• Drive end-to-end delivery including planning, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate across teams to align on technical direction and milestones.
• Mentor engineers and influence best practices in the org.

Skills

Leadership

ML design

System design

Software debugging

GenAI concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree / equivalent

Master's/PhD preferred

Job description

Share Senior Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI, Search Intelligence

Google Mountain View, CA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• 2 years of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The User-AI Flywheel team in Search Intelligence builds new AI-driven tools for automatic self-improvement, and feedback-driven model training and automated evaluations of all Google Search features and its ecosystem, including AI Mode and AI Overviews.

You will build products that impact billions of users while leading technical contributions in a team to make it happen. The role will benefit from a creative problem solver, focused on innovation, and willing to take calculated risks.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Advocate the development of modeling, tuning, and optimization techniques to support large language model (LLM) performance, quality, and capabilities.
• Guide the design and implementation of user-signal-driven improvements of LLMs to address known loss patterns and response quality behaviors.
• Partner with experts from Google Research and DeepMind to advance LLM technologies and integrate them into groundbreaking products.
• Demonstrate exceptional teamwork, sharing your expertise in system design, machine learning modeling, and coding practices tailored to the LLM domain.
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders across the organization to collaboratively define and execute LLM initiatives.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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